SOA Patterns

Thomas Erl is working on a new book of SOA patterns. Here is a list of the patterns destined to appear in the book. You can also provide feedback on the patterns before the book goes to press.

I reviewed the patterns and most reflect enterprise wide SOA concepts and not what you would typically expect from design patterns, which is typically to communicate a design solution. For example, an Enterprise Inventory pattern (inventory of corporate services) or Functional Decomposition pattern (service decomposition) are enterprise wide practices and activities that I would not expect to see in a solution design. To put enterprise wide concepts into every solution design would clutter the design deliverables.

The patterns do offer solid guidelines; it's just that some of the patterns are more like concepts and processes for SOA. The pattern style does offer a concise list of concepts, processes and design patterns though. I would like to see a Visio stencil of the patterns. Some would be valuable to have in solution design.

As Chief Technologist and National Practice Director for SOA with Perficient, Inc., I get the opportunity to work with a lot of customers implementing SOA and transformational architectures such as cloud computing. See my bio page for my contact information or just post a comment if you want to talk about your architecture projects.

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With the SOA Blog Eric Roch brings over 25 years of IT experience including systems development, architecture, consulting, and ...
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With the SOA Blog Eric Roch brings over 25 years of IT experience including systems development, architecture, consulting, and executive level management. The SOA Blog author is currently Chief Technologist and the National Practice Director for SOA with the consulting firm Perficient Inc. (NASDAQ: PRFT). In the SOA Blog Eric shares his insight on SOA news, software, architecture, and implementation.
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